How long does it take to read The Continuum Concept?
Jean Liedloff
The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff takes about 3 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 9 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1975. 172 pages, about 47,300 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Contents INTRODUCTION : Some Reports and Thoughts for the New Edition / ix ONE : How My Ideas Were So Radically Changed / 3 - Seeing first, understanding later, then going back to confirm my observations - Arriving at the Continuum Concept TWO : The Continuum Concept / 21 - What a human being is evolved to expect from life - His inherent tendencies - How the continuum works, in the individual and in the culture THREE : The Beginning of Life / 29 - Natural birth and traumatic birth - The expectations and tendencies of the infant - The in-arms phase and its consequences in the rest of one's life - The experience of infants and babies within the continuum, and without FOUR : Growing Up / 76 - What it means to be a social animal - The innate Talent for Self-Preservation, the growth of self-reliance, and the Importance of respecting the child's responsibility for himself - The assumption of innate sociality and its implications - How a child educates himself - The kind of assistance required of his Edlers FIVE : Deprivation of Essential Experiences / 109 - The blind search for the missed expenences in every corner of life - The hard drug-addict's secret - Myths of the fall of man - The two steps away from the state of grace: Man's evolved ability to make an intellectual choice & civilized man's derailment from the continuum - Relief from thinking, meditation, ritual, and other thought erasers. SIX : Society / 137 - Cultures that suit and cultures that conflict with the continuum - Conformity. reliability. the right not to be bored - Whatever became of joy? SEVEN : Putting Continuum Principles Back to Work / 151 - Sex and "affection": distinguishing between the two needs for physical contact t As need continues, so does the possibility of fulfillment - Understanding and defining our needs from the continuum standpoint - Obstacles In our present way of life - The rights of babies - Approaches to reinstating the continuum In ways open to us - Applications of these…
Subjects: Maturation (Psychology), Social life and customs, Socialization, Yecuana Indians, Child Development, Child rearing
